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Video of On the Rocketship: Expanding the high-quality charter school movement

On the Rocketship: Expanding the high-quality charter school movement

June 26, 2014 -

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

1016 16th Street NW, 7th Floor

Washington, DC20036

United States

Richard Whitmire’s forthcoming book, On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope, is “the best account yet of what is happening with charters,” says the Washington Post’s Jay Mathews. But big questions still abound: Can Rocketship and other high-performing schools scale up quickly, a la the “Fibonacci sequence”? Can charters do so without falling into the pitfalls of the past? Will struggling urban areas embrace this form of school choice? And what about smug suburbs?

Join the Fordham Institute for a conversation with Whitmire and a panel of experts about his book, the Rocketship network, and the future of charter schooling.

Book signing following the event:

On the Rocketship:How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the EnvelopeBy Richard Whitmire

Free books will be given to the first fifty guests who RSVP and attend the event in person!